Purse

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Purse

Entry/Object ID

CW 5730

Description

Woman's miser purse. Knit brown silk. Silver rings and tassels.

Made/Created

Date made

1878

Label/Inscription/Signature

Transcription

"MRF 1878"

Notes

Initials and date on rings.

Provenance

Notes

Note attached to catalog worksheet: "Certainly the brown silk purse with silver rings, ___ probably all the others. Belonged to Mary Rodman Fisher, who became Mrs. Samuel M. Fox, d. 1903. She was the daughter of William Logan Fisher of Wakefield and Sarah Lindley, his second wife. Received October 1967 from Mrs. Cheston with dress." Belonged to Mary Rodman Fisher. Donor: Mrs. Cheston, October 1967.